Proverbs 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:5 : 5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
  • John 14:21-24 : 21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
  • Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them. 48 I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN
  • Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
  • Deut 6:6-9 : 6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
  • Deut 8:1 : 1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
  • Deut 30:16-20 : 16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
  • Ps 119:153 : 153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law.
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments. A Song of Ascents.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
  • Prov 31:5 : 5 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
  • Isa 51:17 : 17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

    2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

    3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    84%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

    21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 1:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

    9for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

    2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 3:21
    79%

    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Prov 4:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

    2for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

    3For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

    4He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

    5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

    6Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 23:26
    79%

    26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • Prov 3:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

    3Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 5:1
    78%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

  • Deut 8:11
    77%

    11Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

  • Prov 23:19
    76%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Prov 8:32
    76%

    32"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Deut 4:9
    75%

    9Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

    7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:10
    74%

    10Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

  • Prov 3:11
    74%

    11My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

  • Ps 119:34
    74%

    34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

    11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • Prov 1:15
    73%

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 23:15
    73%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

  • Ps 119:4
    72%

    4You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

  • Eph 6:3
    72%

    3"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

  • Deut 6:17
    72%

    17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Ps 78:7
    72%

    7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 23:22
    72%

    22Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 23:12
    72%

    12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Deut 6:6
    72%

    6These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;

  • Ps 119:8
    72%

    8I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me. BET

  • Prov 7:24
    72%

    24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Ps 119:16
    72%

    16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

  • Deut 10:13
    72%

    13to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?